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Retracing A Grandfather’s Footsteps

1/15/2026 • 22 min

Dawn Anahid MacKeen’s grandfather survived the Armenian genocide, journeying nearly a thousand miles (much of it on foot) out of what is now Turkey and into the Syrian desert. Dawn chronicled his journey in her book The Hundred Mile Walk: An Armenian Odyssey – and also retraced her grandfather’s route herself to better understand what he endured. Read Dawn’s boo… Play episode

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